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Patent GB-190406746-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Fluid Pressure Motors
Inventor: BECHT ALBERT
Filed: 1904-03-19
Granted: 1904-12-08
Abstract: 6746. Becht, A. April 7, A.D. 1903, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Valves and valve gear; governing; annularchamber type of motor.-A system of distributing motor fluid is carried out by means of a chamber b of variable or fixed capacity situated between the admission valves c, d of the motor. In the case of a reciprocating steam engine, the valve c may be closed before the valve d is opened or the valve c may act like an ordinary expansion valve. In an explosion engine, the chamber b serves as the combustion chamber and the cylinder is consequently not unduly heated. The capacity of the chamber b may be varied by means of a balanced piston p adjusted by hand or by the governor, or by filling- pieces z, which may be used in the engines of winches, cranes, and boats. The invention is also described in connection with a rotary engine of the annular-chamber type having valves c, d of the piston type.
Patent GB-190410041-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Organ Pipes and Organs.
Inventor: WHITE VICTOR
Filed: 1904-05-02
Granted: 1904-11-17
Abstract: 10,041. White, V. May 2. Organs.-The pipes a are provided with end covers b and valvecovered side-apertures e, whereby notes of three pitches can be obtained. A single pipe, constituting a pedal organ, may be formed with a number of side-apertures, so that a gamut of sounds can be produced. Such a pipe may or may not have an end cover. The covers or valves are controlled by stops, which are kept in open position by means of pins, or by suitable contrivances operated by the pedals.
Patent GB-190412381-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Extinguishers for Oil and Spirit Burners.
Filed: 1904-06-01
Granted: 1905-04-20
Abstract: 12,381. Hinks & Son, J., and Hinks, H. D. June 1. Extinguishing oil lamps.-The wick-winding spindle A is utilized as a support for mechanism which closes a cap E over the flame. A slotted arm F projects from the sleeve B and raises the hinged cap E by means of the projecting stud E<1>. According to the Provisional Specification, the cap E is carried directly by the arm F.
Patent GB-190428252-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Electrical Switches, Plugs and the like.
Inventor: STRODE WILLIAM WINSTANLEY
Filed: 1904-12-23
Granted: 1905-10-26
Abstract: 28,252. Strode, W. W., and White, G. H. Dec. 23. Electric-bell pushes.-In bell pushes, switches, and like fittings intended to be mounted flush with a wall &c., the working parts are mounted on a bridge-plate B, the ends or sides of which are mounted in a sunk box or block A, screwed to suitable plugs &c. through lugs A<1>. As shown applied to two switches U mounted on the same bridge-plate and removable with it by unscrewing it from the box A, the bridge-plate may have lugs B<1> to form supports for the bases of the switches. Several switches may have a common base, and several bridge-plates may be used side by side. The box A may be a skeleton. The outside flush pla e E may be attached to the bridge-plate in any way, e.g., by rings screwed to engage with collars surrounding the switch &c.
Patent GB-190428838-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Combined Door, Window and Ventilating Screen:
Inventor: WILLIAMS EBEN PARKER
Filed: 1904-12-30
Granted: 1905-04-27
Abstract: 28,838. Williams, E. P. Feb. 6, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Window appliances. -Consists of a door A, Figs. 1 and 2, provided with slotted recesses A<11>, Fig. 3, carrying grooved metal bars D in which slides a sash frame C having attached to the top a wire ventilating-screen E supported by a spring roller F. The front of the door is recessed at A<3>, Figs. 3 and 6, and covered by a metal plate G bearing a slot g, in which move two bolts i attaching a block I to a second block H secured to the lower rail of the sash. Pivoted to the block I at k is a handle K bearing a cam k' formed so that, when the handle is in a horizontal position, the sash is frae, and when vertical is fixed. The plate G is provided with projections g<1>, Fig. 6, which engage in holes k<11> in the plate K when the latter is to be securely fastened. The blocks I, H are provided with friction rollers I<1>, h respectively.
Patent GB-190502790-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Striking Mechanism for Clocks
Inventor: STAHLECKER CHARLES FREDERIC
Filed: 1905-02-10
Granted: 1905-10-12
Abstract: 2790. Stahlecker, C. F. Feb. 10. Striking-mechanism; chimes.-The main arbor b of the striking-train is prolonged beyond the rear plate, and carries the locking-wheel c and two pin-wheels d, which carry pins on each face for tripping the tails e of four hammers f. A lever a for operating the hour-hammer m is lifted and dropped by a pin on the locking-wheel.
Patent GB-190503312-A (GB)
Title: Electric Selfacting Apparatus for Tightening Ropes and the like.
Inventor: ADAM HEINRICH OTTO
Filed: 1905-02-17
Granted: 1905-08-17
Abstract: 3312. Adam, H. O. Feb. 18, 1904, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Rope railways and tramways.-Relates to selfacting electrical tensioning-devices for ropeways as used for transhipping goods at sea. Fig. 1 shows one arrangement, in which the endless conveying-rope passes round guide-pulleys a, b, c, d, e, the pulley r connected to the armature g of the electromotor, and also two tension pulleys o, s connected by pulley or other tackle f. The rope end of this tackle is connected to a winding-barrel w integral with the revolvably mounted field-magnets m. The tension of the hauling-rope is adjusted so as normally to retain the magnets m at rest, but, in case of increase or decrease of tension, the fieldmagnets rotate in the required direction until balancing of the oppositely acting couples takes place. In a modification, a separate electromotor is used, and tensioning is effected by a governor h, which is normally at rest with the electromotor. Increase or decrease of tension rotates the motor, and the rise of the governor switches out resistance i by an arm k and causes the winding-pulley w, Fig. 4, to rotate in the required direction until tension is readjusted by the jockey pulley l, upon which the governor arms fall and the resistance is again introduced into circuit during the stoppage of the motor.
Patent GB-190506785-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Water Softening and Purifying Apparatus.
Inventor: LORRAIN JAMES GRIEVE
Filed: 1905-03-30
Granted: 1905-08-10
Abstract: 6785. Lorrain, J. G., [Hasskerl, W.]. March 30. Actuating lift valves; dirt, preventing lodgment of.-In an apparatus for softening water, of the kind in which chemicals are discharged through a valve, the valve, which is actuated by a waterwheel driven by the water to be treated, has an angular reciprocating movement round its axis, and is provided with stirrers &c. to prevent the chemicals from subsiding on to the valve-seat and clogging the valve. To the shaft of the waterwheel 2 are attached two crank-disks 5, 6. To the disk 5 is attached the connecting-rod 7, which by means of the bent lever 8 and the horizontal lever 14 raises the valve 10, which is closed on the lever 14 being released by the spring 13. The connecting-rod 11 by means of the crank 20 rocks the shaft 18 to wbich are attached the stirrers 17, while a frame 23 attached to the crank 20 engages with an arm 15 and thereby gives the crank spindle 25 reciprocating angular motion.
Patent GB-190507823-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Interest and Discount Tables.
Inventor: WILSON JOSEPH
Filed: 1905-04-12
Granted: 1906-02-15
Abstract: 7823. Wilson, J. April 12. Calculating-apparatus.-Circular cards for determining interest and discount upon sums of money are marked along their peripheries, are of increasing diameters, and are superposed and centrally pivoted so as to display the markings as shown. Each card deals with h monetary values of a certain denomination, giving the interest at 5 per cent against the principal, and when the cards are rotated so that the principal items summed radially in an aperture make up the total on which the interest is required, the summing of the corresponding interest items gives the interest. More than one rate of interest may be marked on the cards, and distinctive marking may be obtained by the use of coloured inks.
Patent GB-190508072-A (GB)
Title: File
Inventor: VERNAZ ALEXIS
Filed: 1905-04-15
Granted: 1905-06-01
Abstract: 8072. Vernaz, A. April 15. Files and rasps.-The teeth a of a file are cut in arcs of circles having the same radius and having their centres on the axis of the file, whereby a thin piece of material may be filed, as two teeth are always operating at the same time, as shown by the lines C-D, E-F, and G-H.
Patent GB-190510179-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Miniature Rifle Ranges.
Inventor: VICARY WALTER THOMAS
Filed: 1905-05-15
Granted: 1906-01-25
Abstract: 10,179. Vicary, W. T. May 15. Targets.-Fig. 2 is a diagrammatic view of an endless-wire operating-apparatus for moving one set of targets into position from the firing-point and withdrawing the other set simultaneously. The wire is operated by a hand-wheel and kept taut by a weight and jockey pulley. The pulleys D, D<1>, E, E<1>, F, F<1>, G, G<1> are carried by an horizontal frame Q', Q<2> which protects the wires and can be raised and lowered between vertical standards. The targets a are inserted in grooved carriers 0, secured to the wire by screwed hooks p<1>, or loops round screws p, or otherwise. The backboard of the carrier is made of a plurality of layers of thin wood glued together with the grain crossing to prevent splintering. A plate R, fixed to the frame Q<2>, prevents any jumping movement of the targets through sagging of the wire.
Patent GB-190513809-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Automatic Lock for Securing Rifles and their Bayonets and Bolts against Theft.
Inventor: THEW CUTHBERT HARRISON
Filed: 1905-07-04
Granted: 1906-03-29
Abstract: 13,809. Thew, C. H. July 4. Brackets &c.-Figs 1 and 2 are plans, Fig. 4 a cross-section on the line 1-1 of Fig. 2, and Fig. 5 an end view of a rack provided with means for locking the rifles and their bolts and bayonets. The muzzles are locked in the recesses of the bar 1 by turning the slotted rings 3, which have a pin- and-slot connexion with the sliding bar 7 provided with a handle 8 and a locking-catch 11. The bolts are locked by the horizontal bar 15. The bayonet blades 20 are passed through slots in the lugs 18, and the rings of the guards 21 are passed over pins with eccentric heads 22, Fig. 4, plates 23 on the sliding bar 7 serving to prevent disengagement of the rings when the rifles are locked.
Patent GB-190514465-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Controlling and Recording Apparatus for use with Electrical Indicating-instruments.
Inventor: HARRISON GEORGE
Filed: 1905-07-13
Granted: 1905-11-30
Abstract: 14,465. Harrison, G., [Electric Railway Improvement Co.]. July 13. Cut-outs; switches.-To prevent the burning out of the conductors of volt-meters or other electric testing-instruments and at the same time to locate the source of trouble, the instrument is placed in parallel with the coils of a relay or automatic switch and is thereby cut out when the current becomes too great, while the same movement closes other circuits governing separate indicating or other apparatus. Fig. 1 shows the invention as applied in testing the conductivity of rail-bonds by means of a pair of insulated brushes sliding along the rail and drawing off a shunt current through the volt-meter A. The relay armature b<1> in parallel with the volt-meter remains unmoved unless the current reaches the point where the full volt-meter capacity is attained. Switch contacts b, b<1> are then lifted out of mercury cups c, c<1> to break the volt-meter circuit, and other contacts b<2>, b<3> are depressed into cups c<2>, c<3> to make the circuit of a battery d, by which is actuated an air-valve E governing brake or whitewash-ejecting &c, mechanism. The apparatus may be in duplicate so as to test both rails of the track. In the apparatus shown in Fig. 2, another mercury cup c<4> and contact b<4> are added, by which circuit is made round a magnet o actuating a pen N normally describing a straight line on the travelling sheet L. The latter forms part of an apparatus for recording the changes of conductivity, as described in Specification No. 13,953, A.D. 1905, [Abridgment Class Electricity, Measuring &c.]. The sudden movement of the pen N indicates the points of discontinuity. In other modes of applying the invention, the automatic switch may be arranged to connect or disconnect the measuring- instrument when the source of current realises any predetermined conditions.
Patent GB-190514940-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Roller-blind Shutters.
Inventor: HORA TUDOR TRAVERS
Filed: 1905-07-20
Granted: 1906-01-18
Abstract: 14,940. Hora, T. T. July 20. Shutters.-In a roller-blind shutter, the two blinds a, b wind from separate tension rollers g, h on to top rollers e, f by means of the intermediate pinion roller l. The latter can be thrown ont of gear with the roller f by the push n. In setting the shutter, both blinds are wound up by the knob p until the rod c on the blind a engages with the stops d. The roller l is then disengaged, and the blind b wound up further until the required exposure slit is adjusted.
Patent GB-190518192-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Shackle for Colliery Trams and the like.
Inventor: JONES GEORGE VERRIER
Filed: 1905-09-08
Granted: 1906-05-24
Abstract: 18,192. Jones, G. V., Griffiths, D. J., Morgan, D., and Jones. E. Sept. 8. Shackles.-A shackle for colliery trams &c. comprises a U-shaped link H, to which is riveted a cap F, holes being provided in the cap and link for the reception of a pin G which is of the shape and section shown at A, B, C, Fig. 4. The holes in the cap and upper arm of the link are shaped in accordance with the section B so as to guide the pin in its descent, but the hole K in the bottom arm of the link is circular. A stud D formed on the pin G automatically engages with a catch E on the cap, and so locks the pin. According to the Provisional Specification, the pin is locked by the engagement of a key formed thereon with a slot in the cap.
Patent GB-190600970-A (GB)
Title: Improved Appliance for Compressing Cops, on the Spindles of Loom Shuttles.
Inventor: DOUGLAS GEORGE CAMERON
Filed: 1906-01-13
Granted: 1906-05-17
Abstract: 970. Douglas, G. C. Jan. 13. Weavers' tools ; yarns, compressing. - Apparatus for compressing cops on the spindles of loom shuttles comprises an upright bracket 11 secured to a support. Side pieces 12 are adjustably bolted to the bracket, and toothed washers 13, which engage teeth 14 on the side pieces, may be used to prevent slipping. A conical cup 15 is pivoted between the pieces 12, and its movement is limited by stops 17. The point of the cop 20 is inserted into the cup, and the tip of the shuttle 19 into a slot in the bracket 11. By pressing the shuttle upwards by hand, the cop is compressed, the pressure increasing as the cop approaches a vertical position.
Patent GB-190602153-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Hoisting Apparatus for Electric Arc Lamps.
Inventor: NEU JUSTIN
Filed: 1906-01-27
Granted: 1906-11-08
Abstract: 2153. Neu, J. Jan. 27. Winches; pulleyblocks.-An arc lamp is raised and lowered by means of a worm-operated sheave winch fastened to the roof or ceiling, the worm shaft being provided with a pulley or the like so that it can be rotated by an endless rope or chain. Fig. 1 is an elevation and Fig. 3 a plan of one form of the apparatus. The frame is suspended from the ceiling by three bolts a and a baseplate b. The wormwheel is mounted on a vertical shaft, which also carries a pair of grooved pulleys g, from which the suspending- ropes pass, over guide-pulleys, to the lamp bracket l. The worm-wheel is rotated by a worm on the shaft d, which passes through the casing p and carries a sprocket-wheel or the like h adapted to be operated by an endless chain. The same operating-chain may be used for several l.mips, a fork or the like being provided for placing the chain in position. Spring plug contacts are carried by the lamp bracket l and engage tubes i fixed to the winch frame.
Patent GB-190613630-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Tube Brushes and the like
Inventor: BROMELL ALFRED ERNEST GLENFIEL
Filed: 1906-06-14
Granted: 1907-05-30
Abstract: 13,630. Bromell, A. E. G. June 14. Tube-cleaning brushes.-Expanding brushes for clearing tubes of soot or scale by being pushed or drawn through them consist of steel bristles b mounted in perforated plates e riveted to carriers d fixed to flexible arms c held in adjustable caps f on a rod g. If desired, the flexible arms c may be replaced by arms consisting of two members hinged to the underaide of the brush.
Patent GB-190615500-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Radiators.
Filed: 1906-07-09
Granted: 1907-03-07
Abstract: 15,500. Binko, L., and Phoenix Electric Heating Co. July 9. Heating buildings; heating by electricity. - A water-containing radiator for heating buildings has one or more of its loops a enlarged to contain one or more electric heaters c, which are totally immersed in the liquid.
Patent GB-190617629-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Hat Boxes.
Inventor: DOD WILLIAM
Filed: 1906-08-04
Granted: 1906-11-01
Abstract: 17,629. Dod, W. Aug. 4. Hat-boxes.-A hat-box, which is made from pulp, celluloid, metal, or other material and which may be hung from a hat-peg, consists of a body 1 to which is hinged at 12 a lid 2. To the lid is affixed by suitable lugs a false crown 4, which fits inside the hat and is hollow, serving to contain gloves &c. The box may be secured by a tab 8 affixed to the lid which engages with a button 9 on the body. A catch or barb 14 is also provided whichreceives the end of the spring-actuated bolt 15, to the other end of which is secured a tab 18. The box may be opened by pulling apart the tabs 8, 18.
Patent GB-190618186-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Systems of Electric Motor Control.
Filed: 1906-08-13
Granted: 1907-07-18
Abstract: 18,186. British Thomson-Houston Co., [General Electric Co.]. Aug. 13. Distributing; cut-outs; switches.-In a motorcontrol system in which groups of motors in parallel are arranged so that they may be connected in series or in parallel, a cut-out device is arranged in circuit with each motor, so that on one cut-out operating, the corresponding motors of the other groups are also cut out. The Figure shows a fourmotor control system consisting of two groups of two motors, each connected permanently in parallel, the groups being motors M<1>, M<3> and M<2>, M<4>. In circuit with each motor is a fuse 1, 2, 3, 4, respectively. Cut-out switches 5, 6 are provided, switch 5 being adapted to open the circuits of motors M<1>, M<2>, and switch 6 of motors M<3>; M<4>, These switches tend to open under the action of springs 10, and are latched by levers 12. In parallel with the fuses 2, 4 are solenoids 13, 13<a>, which, on one of the fuses blowing, take the current through the armature, attract the corresponding latches 12, and open the cut-out. Similar solenoids 15, 15<a> are in parallel with the fuses 1, 3, which, on being excited, attract the levers 14 and trip the latches 12.
Patent GB-190618776-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Trammel Compasses
Inventor: ROSS JOHN
Filed: 1906-08-22
Granted: 1907-08-01
Abstract: 18,776. Ross, J. Aug. 22. Compasses, drawing; trammels. - In trammel compasses of the kind in which a revolving wheel marks the angular points of any required polygon, the wheel is carried by the pivot leg of the compasses, and is preferably provided with forty-four teeth, of which one may be broken off to leave a gap. Fig. 1 shows a compass on the pivot leg of which the revolving wheel h is kept in position by a nut f<1>.< >To draw a polygon of n sides, the compass is opened out to a radius of 7 n times the pitch of the teeth on the wheel h, and a circle is drawn. The compass is then held with its pivot leg horizontal and the wheel h is trailed round the drawn circle, thus making 44 n tooth marks. Hence if one tooth is removed, the corresponding n gaps represent the angular points of the required polygon. A supplementary scale is provided, each unit of which is equal to seven times the pitch of the teeth.
Patent GB-190619666-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Joints for Cane or like Rods used in Drain Cleaning, Chimney Sweeping, Electric Cable Wire Hauling, and kindred purposes.
Inventor: BRASSINGTON HENRY
Filed: 1906-09-04
Granted: 1907-03-14
Abstract: 19,666. Brassington, H. Sept. 4. Cleansing.--Rods suitable for drain cleaning, chimney sweeping, electric cable hauling, and like purposes are connected by metallic coupling - members A, B, preferably pear shaped, having male and female screws A', B', respectively. Unscrewing whilst in use is prevented by a longitudinal bolt G provided in any well-known manner with a stop to prevent detachment. The ends of the rods R are connected to the members A, B by being inserted in sockets having swellings D on opposite sides. Before insertion, a wedge W is lightly placed in a split in the rod. The wedge W, being driven home against the bottom of the socket, expands the end of the rod into the swellings D as shown. Screws, nails, pegs, or the like are then inserted into the rod through the coupling-members in the ordinary way. A thin copper ferrule F may be added to prevent breakage at the joint C<1>.
Patent GB-190620499-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Detachable Buttons.
Inventor: GAUNT CHARLES FREDERICK
Filed: 1906-09-15
Granted: 1907-09-14
Abstract: 20,499. Gaunt, C. F. Sept. 15. Buttons and button-fasteners; studs; sleeve-links. -A detachable button, particularly suitable for hotel servants' or like uniforms, or for boating, golf, &c. jackets, consists of a head A with a flat fixed or hinged shank 1. Holes 2, 3 in the shank receive spring arms 7, 8 on a plate B forming a fastener. The shank passes through an elongated eyelet or washer plate fixed on the material and is thus prevented from turning. The arms 7, 8 have rounded ends 12 and are notched centrally at 10, the plate B being also preferably notched at 11. In a modification, the arms 7, 8 may be in one piece, the shank 1 being a U-shaped loop. The arms 7, 8 may also be notched at the sides, as shown at 14, 15, Fig. 10, and may yield laterally. Specifications Nos. 5248, and 14,326, A.D. 1886, and No. 818, A.D. 1902, are referred to.
Patent GB-190621011-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Reinforced Building Constructions.
Inventor: CHIODO ANTONIO ZIYNO
Filed: 1906-09-21
Granted: 1907-05-23
Abstract: 21,011. Chiodo, A. Z. Oct. 10, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Sewers; conduits and culverts.-Relates to brick structures reinforced by metal bars, and to the cement used for the bricks and joints. In the form shown in Fig. 10, applicable to pipes, sewers, and culverts, a single layer of thick. bricks is reinforced by hoops of flat bar iron embedded in the outer third of the thickness and tied longitudinally ; the angles are strengthened by angle-irons, and the whole is faced externally by several layers of briquettes. In any of the types described above, the bricks may be made of fine concrete to which is added from 1 to 3 per dent of silicate of potash. Uncompressed bricks are steeped in a solution composed of-1 part of silicate of potash, 5 parts of cement, and 50 parts of water, to give them an impervious coating: